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Nortel's LTE Patent Licensing Play
Last month a group of vendors agreed to commit to a licensing framework, whereby they would license their patents relating to the next-generation wireless technology LTE, or Long-Term Evolution, according to “fair and reasonable” terms. Long-Term Evolution is a 3GPP (third-generation partnership project) effort to enhance the next generation of UMTS with regard to cost, services, spectrum usage and interoperability. The technology is designed to speed up network data transfer rates, enabling for example, faster video streaming, photo sharing, and music downloading. The group which includes the likes of Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, NEC, NextWave Wireless, Nokia, NokiaSiemens Networks, and Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications most notably does not include Qualcomm, which earlier this year announced plans to develop LTE chipsets. Now, in a move they hope will accelerate the global adoption of LTE by service providers, handset manufacturers and end-users, Nortel has announced a competitive royalty rate for its standards-essential patent claims for LTE handsets. In a statement, Nortel said they will “license its LTE standards essential patent claims for LTE handsets at a royalty rate for approximately 1%, subject to reciprocity, defensive suspension, and grantback to Nortel products, services, and solutions, as well as other customary license terms and conditions.” Nortel hopes that by publishing its patent royalty rates it will provide “increased transparency and predictability of IPR costs” which would eliminate any cost uncertainties in handset costs from stunting the adoption and growth of technologies like LTE. TrackBack (0)
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WSJ Rumor: Sprint to T-Mobile?
A report in The Wall St. Journal has Sprint Nextel Corp. as a takeover candidate, with Germany’s T-Mobile a prime candidate to pull off the deal. If the deal were to go through, it would make T-Mobile the largest U.S. cellular carrier, vaulting it past AT&T and Verizon Wireless to the number one spot. While it does make for interesting speculation, let’s not get worked up over it yet. Rumors such as these are what fuels Wall Street, and The Journal said deliberations were at "a preliminary stage and management may very well turn away," and cited sources as saying the arrangement, "could still be weeks, or even months away." The rumored deal does make sense on several levels, and with the Euro so strong against the dollar, it might simply amount to be too good a deal for Germany’s T-Mobile to pass up on the opportunity to purchase Sprint Nextel’s spectrum and 50 million+ customers. As they say, watch this space… TrackBack (0)
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WSJ Rumor: Sprint to T-Mobile?
A report in The Wall St. Journal has Sprint Nextel Corp. as a takeover candidate, with Germany’s T-Mobile a prime candidate to pull off the deal. If the deal were to go through, it would make T-Mobile the largest U.S. cellular carrier, vaulting it past AT&T and Verizon Wireless to the number one spot. While it does make for interesting speculation, let’s not get worked up over it yet. Rumors such as these are what fuels Wall Street, and The Journal said deliberations were at "a preliminary stage and management may very well turn away," and cited sources as saying the arrangement, "could still be weeks, or even months away." The rumored deal does make sense on several levels, and with the Euro so strong against the dollar, it might simply amount to be too good a deal for Germany’s T-Mobile to pass up on the opportunity to purchase Sprint Nextel’s spectrum and 50 million+ customers. As they say, watch this space… TrackBack (0)
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Foundry at Interop: New Modules, Green Award
I had the opportunity to meet with Foundry Networks at Interop this week, to discuss their latest offerings, a pair of high-density interface modules to its data center switching and routing product lines, the BigIron RX Series switches and the NetIron MLX Series routers. The new modules will reportedly allow the BigIron RX Series switches and the NetIron MLX Series routers to deliver the industry’s highest 10 gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) and gigabit Ethernet (GbE) density of up to 512 ports of 10GbE and 1,536 ports of GbE in a single system. The news of the new modules came on the heels of Foundry’s announcement of a new vision for advancing the data center based upon four key pillars: performance, virtualization, convergence and efficiency. Foundry also was awarded the first-ever Interop Green Award. According to a release on Foundry’s site, the company was “…singled out for its ability to deliver industry-leading performance while minimizing power, space and cooling consumption in its switching, routing and application delivery controller (ADC) product set and solutions.” TrackBack (0)
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Interop: Shunra Makes News
I had some more good meetings today at Interop, among them a chat with Shunra Software’s Rhoan Morgan and David Berg. Check out this article on Shunra’s newest announcement regarding version 5.30 of the Shunra Virtual Enterprise (VE) Suite TrackBack (0)
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